Theoretical Criminology from Modernity to Post-Modernism

Morrison, Wayne M.

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“…When societal features shape the distribution and concern for family and parental characteristics, idol worship becomes a product of societal influence. Such an observation echoes the concern for the influence of capitalism and postmodernisation at the societal level on idol worship (Giles, 2000;Niu & Wang, 2009;Morrison, 1995). Attempts to understand and tackle adolescents' idol worship thereby need to consider parental, family, and societal factors.…”

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Idol worship as compensation for parental absence

Cheung

Yue

2012

International Journal of Adolescence and Youth

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Idol worship refers to psychological identification with and emotional attachment to an idol figure, who is most likely to be a celebrity for young people nowadays. Fragmentary findings in previous research on adolescent idol worship suggest that it may represent compensation for the worshipper's deficits, such as those in parental resources. To illuminate this compensation perspective, the study surveyed 401 Chinese secondary school students in Hong Kong. Its results show that parental absence and socioeconomic status tended to affect the adolescents' idol worship desires. The idol worship included the adolescent's liking of pop idols, the age of the idols liked, and the wish to have romantic relationships with idols. They offer good support to the compensation perspective, implying that idol worship is symptomatic of the adolescent's deficits.

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Idol worship as compensation for parental absence

Cheung

Yue

2012

International Journal of Adolescence and Youth

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“…Though criminological theories were gender neutral as theories of 'crime' and 'criminality' (Morrison 1995), the discourse of criminology and gender could not remain behind the curtains as criminological literature on gender and crime came to the fore through sociologists and feminists. At its root was the distinction between 'sex' and 'gender' that gave birth to the notions of masculinity and femininity, the social constructs of gender.…”

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Shifting Epistemology of Juvenile Justice in India

Kumar

2019

Contexto int.

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The conception of juvenile justice has its ontological root in the internationalisation of childhood and construction of children as a distinct social class. The Euro-centric vision of children as rights-possessors that informed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) (1989) transformed the epistemology of juvenile justice. India ratified the CRC in 1992, and defined ‘child’ uniformly, irrespective of sex, unlike in the past, thereby challenging its gendered subjectivity of ‘female child.’ Such an emergence of a new modality of delivering juvenile justice that I see as the epistemic shift did not last long, and one gory incident, alongside mediatised demonisation of male children, and brewing social discontent on women’s safety, changed its landscape. This paper foregrounds an analysis of the role of gender in juvenile justice jurisprudence from the colonial period to the present time. Reflecting on the populist punitiveness at play, it talks about the Indian state’s poverty of understanding of children’s rights. Mapping legislative, juridical and political dimensions of the journey of the juvenile justice framework in India, the paper shows how construction of gendered notions of a particular group of male child offenders has resulted in the punitive turn of the juvenile justice system in India. It further unpacks the potentiality of repercussions of such punitiveness, and offers reasons as to why a retributive response by the state is a step backwards in reforming juvenile delinquents. Overall, it narrates the story of a political-systemic failure to deal with an important social issue, which may act as a lesson to be learnt with respect to the child governance framework, both for the countries in South Asia and the wider global South.

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“…As Wayne Morrison explains, under Hume 'memory allows the imagination to shape a series of somewhat related perceptions into a unity to create a fiction of the self, through which order can be made of otherwise chaotic [or diverse] presentations.' 86 In 'reading' Figure 5, two diverse presentations are linked together via the reader's imaginative closure to suggest a single, continuous individual. At the heart of the operation of the narrative form of comics can thus be seen an element of how we understand the narratives of our lives, and of our selves, under a Humean model of memory.…”

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Comics, Law, and Aesthetics: Towards the Use of Graphic Fiction in Legal Studies

Giddens

2012

Law and Humanities

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Theoretical Criminology from Modernity to Post-Modernism

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Idol worship as compensation for parental absence

Idol worship as compensation for parental absence

Shifting Epistemology of Juvenile Justice in India

Comics, Law, and Aesthetics: Towards the Use of Graphic Fiction in Legal Studies

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